Category: Food
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Meals at Maize Served with Authenticity, Love for Community
Armando likes to talk, and he breaks the ice when we first sit down by telling me about a well-known C-U writer who drunkenly approached the Sandovals only two weeks after Maize opened in 2011, seemingly coming at them with a complaint near closing time on a Friday night. But the this person wasn’t complaining.…
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Cholesterol’s Debated Role in Heart Disease
With seven decades of experience in the field of nutrition, Dr. Kummerow, a biochemist and food scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has persistently gathered information that is at odds with prominently assumed knowledge about cholesterol and, by extension, heart disease.
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The Last Roll of the Dice for Mark “Shades” Hartstein
Meet Mark “Shades” Hartstein, a well-known chef who has worked in 27 kitchens in 27 years. This kitchen is his last roll of the dice.
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A Mid-day Break at Bevier Café
Tucked inside Bevier Hall on the UIUC campus, Bevier Café offers more than affordable paninis and fish and chips—it serves as a collaborative teaching kitchen and a quiet refuge from the summer heat.